The Investment Casting Institute has announced the winning castings for its 16th Casting Design Contest in October, at the 64th Annual ICI Technical Conference & Expo.

The Innovator of the Year Award was given to Feinguss Blank GmbH for making an integral scheme for traceability.

Awards were given in aerospace, defense, fine art, marine and pumps and valves categories. Eight finalists representing Member companies were also recognised.

Awards were presented to O’Fallon Casting for aerospace; Uni-Cast for defence, Artcast, Inc. for fine art, Fansteel Intercast for marine and Aristo-Cast for pumps and valves.

The casting contest is open to members of the Investment Casting Institute and was designed to recognize foundries which manufacture parts and components that best illustrate and promote the benefits and flexibility of the investment casting process, or which demonstrate problem solving techniques for the customer.